The Josh Innes Show - Dude Scammed By "Jelly Roll"

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

I love stories about people getting scammed by celebrities. It sucks that they get scammed. But, they are morons who believe famous people need their money. This guy, from Ohio, got scammed by someone he thought was Jelly Roll. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, everybody. You know that I'm a big fan of old people getting scammed on the internet? Well, perhaps that's not fair. That makes me sound like a real monster. I'm not necessarily a fan of old people getting scammed. I am an old, look, I'm an old people supporter. I like old people. They're decent enough. They mean well. But I am a fan of the stories of people getting scammed. Let me try. Let me see if I can phrase that correctly. I do not hope that old people get scammed. That is not my hope. I do not. wake up every day saying, boy, I hope a bunch of old people get scammed by people pretending to be celebrities on the internet. But when I see those stories, I do enjoy them and I enjoy them because, well, people are stupid and when people do stupid things, it's interesting, right? So we talk about it, like the other day, we were talking about last year when Joe Elliott from Def Leppard had to release a statement, letting people know that he was not asking

people for money on social media. Neil Diamond in his bio on Instagram says Neil will never ask you for money, which means somebody has sent money to Neil Diamond thinking that Neil Diamond, one of the greatest songwriters of all time, needs their money and their gift cards. People are dumb. Now, let's play a couple of commercials and let's meet the latest dummy from Springfield, Ohio. All righty. So, this story takes place in Springfield, Ohio, and a man was scammed by who he thought was jelly roll. Here's the news story. It's often described as a dream, but there are people out there looking to exploit that dream, as people are now impersonating these celebrities, and one Springfield man says he was a victim of one of their scams.

I'm doing this video to show you, the jelly roll is just $50 apple card once you get it, the delivery man. All right, so what you just heard there was audio of a video that is part of this news story. And it's jelly roll. By the way, the video looks just like jelly roll. I'll give them this. The things that you can do with AI is remarkable. I was talking with someone the other day, this girl that's on the promo team here at IHeart, and she's 20 years old and she makes short movies.

And first of all, it's weird talking to someone who's 20 years old and you're 40. And like you don't know if they think you're a dope. You don't know. It's a very strange phenomenon. But she's telling me about how she likes to make little indie movies and short movies and she likes to watch indie movies and whatever. She wants to make movies. Cool. And I was talking with her about what it was like in my youth when you'd see a movie like Forrest Gump and you'd be blown away by how Lieutenant Dan has no legs and all the effort it took to make that possible.

and now everything can be done so easily. You can, you know, like Lieutenant Dan is child's play, right? Like, now you look at shit and it's like, oh, Jurassic Park, that's poppycock. Back to the future, too, that's hogwash. Terminator 2, that's easy baby shit, right? But back then it was like the biggest deal ever to be able to see this kind of stuff. It was shocking to see all of this. So I was trying to explain that to her that, you know, now everything is done so easily.

AI is pretty mind-blowing. I'll defend those who are being scammed on one side of it. here, the videos look convincing. But before we hear any more of this story and this audio from this story, it is something that needs to be pointed out. I can sit here and say, wow, I can see where you think this video is real because it looks real. But you must ask yourself, why is jelly roll reaching out to me? Ask yourself that question. We continue. I really thought it was Jelly Row. Ronnie Flint lives in Springfield. He says he was going about his day when he got a message on Facebook, claiming to be a celebrity that he happened to be a fan of. This is what they sent.

Jelly Rolls private, private page. They said that I won $50,000 in a brand new car. So wait a second. Now, it'd be one thing if you got a Facebook message from someone claiming to be from a Jelly Roll like official page or what like a not like an official page like from the sounds of it he got sent a story or sent a link or sent a video from Jelly Roll's personal Facebook page like sir I understand that the videos look real and I understand that you're old I get all that but ask yourself why would jelly roll reach out to me and then ask why am I getting this from this particular page no one asks these questions that's when they sent him a video of what appears to be Jelly Roll, asking Flint to cover shipping to get his prizes.

Flint was not convinced. Even after the page sent him, what they say is Jelly Roll's official driver's license. But the second video that they sent surprised him. Here's what I love. Now, I'll give him this. He wasn't fooled by the first video and he wasn't fooled by the license. I'm curious to know what it can happen that would fool him. And the license is great. The picture of Jelly Roll's license is phenomenal. Because it's basically a McLevin license. Like, it looks like that. But, um, and then the idea that, you know, Jelly Roll needs you to cover the shipping.

Like, hey, man, just cover the cost of shipping. Jelly Roll has to be a multi-millionaire. He's everywhere. His music is everywhere. Jelly Roll is a millionaire. Why would Jelly Roll and his people need you to cover the cost of shipping? And give this guy credit, he asked the same question, apparently. So that's good.

But what was it that stumped him? Ronnie fled. I'm here to tell you that once you get the $25, your delivery process will complete. And then when they sent the second video where he actually said my full name, that's what got me. So you didn't believe that the video could be real, that the AI, you thought maybe this video's fake, it's AI, you didn't think that Jelly Roll would really ask you to send $25 for shipping, which again, why would he? He's Jelly Roll, he's rich. usually when you win a prize the company giving away the prize doesn't say hey it's all yours if you're cover shipping but then he was fooled by his name being involved in it again it's AI AI can do anything you need it to do it's fucking crazy the other again on a much smaller scale I use the chat GPT I was just screwing around at this remote I had nothing going on yesterday did one of these appearances so my dad sent a picture of me or no not of me it's a picture of him and his friend who was like another dad to me when we were growing up because he was always around. And I took that picture and I asked Chat GPT to make it look like the cover of a My Two Dad's DVD. And then instantly I've got that.

That's on a much smaller scale. But AI can do anything you need it to do. So you weren't believing it until your name was involved in it. You didn't believe it when he showed you his license. You didn't believe it when the first video came in. You didn't believe it when he was asking you to cover shipping. But you believed it when your name was in it. I was like, wow, it's really jelly roll.

Then they asked him to send money through Apple gift cards. Flint sent them a total of $70, even though he is on a fixed income. I even told him that, you know, I'm on disability. You know, this is all the money that I have for the rest of the month. A family member warned Flint that this was a scam, and he promptly stopped and filed a police report. But the messages for more money keep coming. They're thinking I'm going to send them another third. on the third, which ain't going to happen.

Well, obviously, it's not. Like, it sucks that you get scammed, and that's unfortunate. But, brother, look, this isn't as bad as some of the others, like when women are sending money to rock stars who are claiming to be in love with them. They are the dumb ones. Those are the people that confirm that women are dipshits too. That's one of our favorite topics on the show. Women can be dipshits too.

When women are sending money to rock stars who claim to be in love with them after two minutes of talking with them. Those women are stupid. This guy doesn't seem super stupid. He sent 70 bucks, which is dumb, but he's not the dumbest of the bunch. As far as like a ranking, if we were to do a ranking of morons being scammed, he's not very high on the list. He only got scammed out of 70 bucks, although it's the only 70 bucks he had. So I guess if you want to look at it percentage-wise, he got scammed out of 100% of his money. So that part of the is stupid but big picture like there are people that send hundreds of thousands of dollars to people who claim to be in love with them or claim to be celebrities who are in love with them those people

are super stupid this guy is like low on the stupidity ranking but very high on the percentage of wealth that he is given to a scammer ranking oh my shit froze damn it it's happened to me again uh i have to wait for my device to unfreeze i need someone to come in and fix this my My Vox Pro, which is the little thing I used to play this audio, it freezes on me a lot lately, and I don't like that. Can you please work now? No? Are you frozen still? You son of a bitch.

You did it to me. Point being in all of this is that people get scammed a lot on the Internet. Don't trust anything on the Internet. Don't go on the Internet. People, I posted this on the station Facebook page, and a bunch of people got mad. I asked if they feel that people of a certain age should have to pass a test to be on the Internet. the internet. And as you know, I am a big believer in a test that would help you get on the internet. So if you pass the test, you can get on the internet. If you're like 65 years old and you

pass the test, you can get on the internet. If you don't pass the test, you don't. People are easily hoodwinked and bamboozled and fooled and people are dumb. And scammers are savvy. But like, are they even really that savvy? Like, if you're a scammer, like, how do you rank if you pulled off a good scam. Like if someone falls for you being Neil, like, I don't know, Neil Diamond, are you like, I'm good at my job, I'm good at being a scammer, or are they just really fucking dumb? Or is that how you gauge if you're a good scammer? Like, if you're able to convince people that are stupid to do stuff, does that make you good? Or do you view it as like, God, that was way too easy? I didn't even have to put an effort into it. This old lady felt

that, you know, that Neil Diamond needed $50 in Amazon gift cards from me. Like, do you think you even did anything. Do you view yourself as someone who accomplished something when you do that? These are the questions I have. Can I finish this or no? No, my damn thing's frozen. Anyway, I love you guys. We'll talk later.